obliquityn.

Brit.

/ə(ʊ)ˈblɪkwᵻti/, U.S.

/əˈblɪkwᵻdi/,

/oʊˈblɪkwᵻdi/

Forms: late Middle English obliquite, late Middle English obliquitee, late Middle English oblyquyte, 1500s–1600s obliquitie, 1500s– obliquity.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French obliquité.

Etymology: < Middle French obliquité inclination at an oblique angle (second half of the 13th cent. in Old French as obliqueté ), angle at which the celestial equator is inclined to the ecliptic (c1370), indirectness, lack of frankness (1541) < classical Latin oblīquitāt- , oblīquitās inclination at an oblique angle, in post-classical Latin also indirectness, ambiguity (early 5th cent.), grammatical inflection (13th cent. in British sources) < oblīquus oblique adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix).

I. Physical senses.

a. The quality of being oblique in direction, position, or form; inclination at an oblique angle to a straight line or plane; the degree or extent of such inclination.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > quality of being oblique

obliquity?a1425

shoringness1567

biasness1611

obliqueness1611

diagonality1859

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 127^v Causez of obliquitee [Paris wryenge aside] somtyme ar outward as assiduitee & custome, i. vse, of biholding to to þat partie to which is made þe obliquacioun.

1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 248 A thyrde diuersitye is..the obliquitie of the Horizonte.

a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 89 He knew..Of signifer the greit obliquitie Fra Aries to Cancer.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. vi. i. 363 He that weares an vpright shooe, may correct the obliquity.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 132 Several Sphears..Mov'd contrarie with thwart obliquities .

1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 3 The Stream of the Tide..will pass thro' the Arches without any sensible Obliquity.

1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. II. xv. 182 The rays undergo no alteration, because they have no obliquity of incidence.

1811 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire I. 168 Large cross Faults..occasion the ranges or bassets of strata to be continually coming up with different degrees of obliquity.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 310 Loxarthrus in surgery, an obliquity of a joint of any kind, without spasm or luxation.

1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xix. 344 The obliquity of the eye, which is proper to the Chinese and Japanese, is exaggerated in their pictures.

1949 H. Bailey Demonstr. Physical Signs Clin. Surg. (ed. 11) xiv. 137 The visceroptotic chest. The sloping shoulders and great obliquity of the ribs, combined with a narrow subcostal angle, are a regular accompaniment of the virginal type of visceroptotis.

1990 Science 11 May 643/1 The axial tilt or obliquity of Mars–the angle between the planet's orbital and equatorial planes—may have been much less when Mars formed.

b. Astronomy obliquity of the ecliptic n. the angle at which the plane of the ecliptic is inclined to that of the celestial equator.

ΚΠ

1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. v. 114 By reason of the obliquity of the Eclipticke line.

1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §20. 287 The Obliquity of the Ecliptic being given, to find by calculation, the Right Ascension and Declination of a given point in it.

1867 D. Lardner & E. Dunkin Handbk. Astron. (ed. 3) ix. 125 The arc of the heavens included between these poles is equal to the obliquity of the ecliptic.

1993 Humanist in Canada Winter 10/1 Eratosthenes..was..an astronomer who corrected earlier measurements of the obliquity of the ecliptic.

c. Botany. Of a leaf: the property of having unequal sides. Cf. oblique adj. 2d.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [noun] > having particular shape or form > state of being particular shape

obliquity1790

1790 Nat. Hist. in J. White Jrnl. Voy. New S. Wales App. 228 The obliquity in the leaves, one side being shorter than the other, as well as somewhat narrower all the way up,..is remarkable in both plants.

1864 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. ii. 149 Observe the obliquity of the base of the leaf-blade, characteristic of the Lime.

1936 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 63 431 Euphorbia laredana Millsp.,..leaf blades extremely oblique even to the small upper ones, ovate (distorted by the obliquity) 3–5 mm. long.

II. Non-physical senses.

2. Divergence from right conduct or thought; perversity, aberration; an instance of this, a fault, an error.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > erring > errant conduct > [noun]

prevaricationc1384

obliquity?c1425

prolapsion1581

obliqueness1611

deviation1625

aberrancy1646

society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > perversity or depravity

wharfedlaikc1175

obliquity?c1425

turpitude1490

perversenessa1500

pravitya1513

pervertness1581

beastlinessa1618

depravedness1623

depravity1646

moral turpitude1660

depravation1728

miscreancy1804

pervertedness1828

obliqueness1877

?c1425 T. Hoccleve Jonathas (Durh.) in Minor Poems (1970) i. 240 By the ryng þat is rownd, We shul vndirstande feith, which is rownd, withouten obliquitee or crookidnesse.

1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 8959 Ryht entent to god wythowtyn oblyquyte She had.

1551 T. Cranmer Answer S. Gardiner 14 Your boke is so ful of craftes, sleights, shiftes, obliquities, and manifest untruthes.

1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xix. 257 It is his will by obliquity, a side-will, vnproper, vndirect.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 446 The perversnesse and the obliquity of my will.

1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 50 The obliquity that was in Rome.

1741 M. Jones Let. 6 Dec. in Misc. in Prose & Verse (1750) 203 They have had strong Obliquities of nature to conquer.

1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. iii. 7 A most unaccountable obliquity, (as he call'd it) in my manner of setting up my top, and justifying the principles upon which I had done it.

1844 W. E. Gladstone in Q. Rev. Dec. 164 Mr. Ward evinces the same thorough one-sidedness and obliquity of judgment.

1897 B. Stoker Dracula xix. 262 It is this very obliquity of thought and memory which makes mental disease such a fascinating study.

1954 W. Lewis Self Condemned i. viii. 116 My case is rather similar to this suppositious one, in which you left Robert, explaining your action by charging him with moral obliquity.

1981 E. Blishen Shaky Relations V. iv. 195 I was shaking, I said, with anger at such sinister obliquity.

3. Indirectness in action, conduct, speech, etc.; a way or method that is not direct or straightforward.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > crookedness > [noun]

crookednessc1380

deformityc1400

turningnessa1586

indirectiona1616

obliquitya1620

curvity1620

tortuosity1621

indirectness1628

unsinglenessa1658

unstraightness1693

tortuousness1824

underhandedness1884

society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > lack of straightforwardness or uprightness

crookednessc1380

turningnessa1586

indirectiona1616

obliquitya1620

curvity1620

tortuosity1621

indirectness1628

unuprightnessa1680

unstraightness1693

deviousness1727

tortuousness1824

obliqueness1877

a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. xii. §6. 135 We may behold, euen in the Atheists, by a kinde of obliquity, diuers manifest foote-stepps, and acknowledgments of a Diuinity.

1620 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Councel of Trent viii. 792 To doe it by way of narration, or by obliquity [later edd. oblo-; It. obliquitá] of wordes.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 149. ⁋9 The insolence of benefaction terminates not in negative rudeness or obliquities of insult. I am often told in express terms of the miseries from which charity has snatched me.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. iv. 134 The obliquities of Eastern negotiation wore out the temper of Lally.

1881 H. James Washington Square ii. 15 Mrs. Penniman was a tall, thin, fair, rather faded woman, with..a certain foolish indirectness and obliquity of character.

1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Oct. 1285/1 The narrative manner similarly alternates between abruptly functional stage or screen-direction and a Nabokovian obliquity in which words take on an energy of their own and skitter away from the matter in hand.

1985 A. Brookner Family & Friends vi. 75 A mild and subtle influence compounded of glancing opinions, smiling obliquities, tender and persuasive flatteries.

†4. Deviation from any rule or order. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > [noun]

wrongc1620

obliquity1646

untrueness1652

unaccurateness1659

inaccuracy1671

unexactness1677

unaccuracy1702

wrongness1726

looseness1769

inexactitude1786

imprecision1803

inexactness1828

impreciseness1907

1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 87 Let us, therefore,..learne the rule from the obliquity, as well as the obliquity from the rule.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 127. ⁋3 Far the greater part..deviate at first into slight obliquities.

†5. Grammar. Inflection for case, declension. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > inflection > [noun] > declension

declinationc1440

declension1565–78

declining1565

obliquity1668

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iv. vi. 446 'Tis capable of that kind of Obliquity by prefixing Prepositions, which is commonly stiled variation by Cases.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	obliquity
释义	obliquityn. Brit. /ə(ʊ)ˈblɪkwᵻti/, U.S. /əˈblɪkwᵻdi/, /oʊˈblɪkwᵻdi/ Forms: late Middle English obliquite, late Middle English obliquitee, late Middle English oblyquyte, 1500s–1600s obliquitie, 1500s– obliquity. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French obliquité. Etymology: < Middle French obliquité inclination at an oblique angle (second half of the 13th cent. in Old French as obliqueté ), angle at which the celestial equator is inclined to the ecliptic (c1370), indirectness, lack of frankness (1541) < classical Latin oblīquitāt- , oblīquitās inclination at an oblique angle, in post-classical Latin also indirectness, ambiguity (early 5th cent.), grammatical inflection (13th cent. in British sources) < oblīquus oblique adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). I. Physical senses. 1. a. The quality of being oblique in direction, position, or form; inclination at an oblique angle to a straight line or plane; the degree or extent of such inclination. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > quality of being oblique obliquity?a1425 shoringness1567 biasness1611 obliqueness1611 diagonality1859 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 127^v Causez of obliquitee [Paris wryenge aside] somtyme ar outward as assiduitee & custome, i. vse, of biholding to to þat partie to which is made þe obliquacioun. 1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 248 A thyrde diuersitye is..the obliquitie of the Horizonte. a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 89 He knew..Of signifer the greit obliquitie Fra Aries to Cancer. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. vi. i. 363 He that weares an vpright shooe, may correct the obliquity. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 132 Several Sphears..Mov'd contrarie with thwart obliquities . View more context for this quotation 1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 3 The Stream of the Tide..will pass thro' the Arches without any sensible Obliquity. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. II. xv. 182 The rays undergo no alteration, because they have no obliquity of incidence. 1811 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire I. 168 Large cross Faults..occasion the ranges or bassets of strata to be continually coming up with different degrees of obliquity. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 310 Loxarthrus in surgery, an obliquity of a joint of any kind, without spasm or luxation. 1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xix. 344 The obliquity of the eye, which is proper to the Chinese and Japanese, is exaggerated in their pictures. 1949 H. Bailey Demonstr. Physical Signs Clin. Surg. (ed. 11) xiv. 137 The visceroptotic chest. The sloping shoulders and great obliquity of the ribs, combined with a narrow subcostal angle, are a regular accompaniment of the virginal type of visceroptotis. 1990 Science 11 May 643/1 The axial tilt or obliquity of Mars–the angle between the planet's orbital and equatorial planes—may have been much less when Mars formed. b. Astronomy obliquity of the ecliptic n. the angle at which the plane of the ecliptic is inclined to that of the celestial equator. ΚΠ 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. v. 114 By reason of the obliquity of the Eclipticke line. 1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §20. 287 The Obliquity of the Ecliptic being given, to find by calculation, the Right Ascension and Declination of a given point in it. 1867 D. Lardner & E. Dunkin Handbk. Astron. (ed. 3) ix. 125 The arc of the heavens included between these poles is equal to the obliquity of the ecliptic. 1993 Humanist in Canada Winter 10/1 Eratosthenes..was..an astronomer who corrected earlier measurements of the obliquity of the ecliptic. c. Botany. Of a leaf: the property of having unequal sides. Cf. oblique adj. 2d. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [noun] > having particular shape or form > state of being particular shape obliquity1790 1790 Nat. Hist. in J. White Jrnl. Voy. New S. Wales App. 228 The obliquity in the leaves, one side being shorter than the other, as well as somewhat narrower all the way up,..is remarkable in both plants. 1864 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. ii. 149 Observe the obliquity of the base of the leaf-blade, characteristic of the Lime. 1936 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 63 431 Euphorbia laredana Millsp.,..leaf blades extremely oblique even to the small upper ones, ovate (distorted by the obliquity) 3–5 mm. long. II. Non-physical senses. 2. Divergence from right conduct or thought; perversity, aberration; an instance of this, a fault, an error. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > erring > errant conduct > [noun] prevaricationc1384 obliquity?c1425 prolapsion1581 obliqueness1611 deviation1625 aberrancy1646 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > perversity or depravity wharfedlaikc1175 obliquity?c1425 turpitude1490 perversenessa1500 pravitya1513 pervertness1581 beastlinessa1618 depravedness1623 depravity1646 moral turpitude1660 depravation1728 miscreancy1804 pervertedness1828 obliqueness1877 ?c1425 T. Hoccleve Jonathas (Durh.) in Minor Poems (1970) i. 240 By the ryng þat is rownd, We shul vndirstande feith, which is rownd, withouten obliquitee or crookidnesse. 1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 8959 Ryht entent to god wythowtyn oblyquyte She had. 1551 T. Cranmer Answer S. Gardiner 14 Your boke is so ful of craftes, sleights, shiftes, obliquities, and manifest untruthes. 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xix. 257 It is his will by obliquity, a side-will, vnproper, vndirect. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 446 The perversnesse and the obliquity of my will. 1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 50 The obliquity that was in Rome. 1741 M. Jones Let. 6 Dec. in Misc. in Prose & Verse (1750) 203 They have had strong Obliquities of nature to conquer. 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. iii. 7 A most unaccountable obliquity, (as he call'd it) in my manner of setting up my top, and justifying the principles upon which I had done it. 1844 W. E. Gladstone in Q. Rev. Dec. 164 Mr. Ward evinces the same thorough one-sidedness and obliquity of judgment. 1897 B. Stoker Dracula xix. 262 It is this very obliquity of thought and memory which makes mental disease such a fascinating study. 1954 W. Lewis Self Condemned i. viii. 116 My case is rather similar to this suppositious one, in which you left Robert, explaining your action by charging him with moral obliquity. 1981 E. Blishen Shaky Relations V. iv. 195 I was shaking, I said, with anger at such sinister obliquity. 3. Indirectness in action, conduct, speech, etc.; a way or method that is not direct or straightforward. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > crookedness > [noun] crookednessc1380 deformityc1400 turningnessa1586 indirectiona1616 obliquitya1620 curvity1620 tortuosity1621 indirectness1628 unsinglenessa1658 unstraightness1693 tortuousness1824 underhandedness1884 society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > lack of straightforwardness or uprightness crookednessc1380 turningnessa1586 indirectiona1616 obliquitya1620 curvity1620 tortuosity1621 indirectness1628 unuprightnessa1680 unstraightness1693 deviousness1727 tortuousness1824 obliqueness1877 a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. xii. §6. 135 We may behold, euen in the Atheists, by a kinde of obliquity, diuers manifest foote-stepps, and acknowledgments of a Diuinity. 1620 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Councel of Trent viii. 792 To doe it by way of narration, or by obliquity [later edd. oblo-; It. obliquitá] of wordes. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 149. ⁋9 The insolence of benefaction terminates not in negative rudeness or obliquities of insult. I am often told in express terms of the miseries from which charity has snatched me. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. iv. 134 The obliquities of Eastern negotiation wore out the temper of Lally. 1881 H. James Washington Square ii. 15 Mrs. Penniman was a tall, thin, fair, rather faded woman, with..a certain foolish indirectness and obliquity of character. 1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Oct. 1285/1 The narrative manner similarly alternates between abruptly functional stage or screen-direction and a Nabokovian obliquity in which words take on an energy of their own and skitter away from the matter in hand. 1985 A. Brookner Family & Friends vi. 75 A mild and subtle influence compounded of glancing opinions, smiling obliquities, tender and persuasive flatteries. †4. Deviation from any rule or order. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > [noun] wrongc1620 obliquity1646 untrueness1652 unaccurateness1659 inaccuracy1671 unexactness1677 unaccuracy1702 wrongness1726 looseness1769 inexactitude1786 imprecision1803 inexactness1828 impreciseness1907 1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 87 Let us, therefore,..learne the rule from the obliquity, as well as the obliquity from the rule. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 127. ⁋3 Far the greater part..deviate at first into slight obliquities. †5. Grammar. Inflection for case, declension. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > inflection > [noun] > declension declinationc1440 declension1565–78 declining1565 obliquity1668 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iv. vi. 446 'Tis capable of that kind of Obliquity by prefixing Prepositions, which is commonly stiled variation by Cases. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.?a1425
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